The Veterans Health Administration is pairing success metrics with real-life outcomes–that is, the number of lives changed and saved, according to Dr. Ryan Vega, executive director of the VHA Innovation Ecosystem.
A small team at the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) worked on a natural language processing program to update the processing of disability forms.
VA has embarked on a mission to modernization, which has been advanced by thinking outside of the box and outside of VA headquarters.
Government employees know this better than anyone, as the services they offer are vital to the public good, and when they are not delivered promptly and cleanly, citizens can be quick to remind agencies in comment sections and feedback forms.
The difference between good and bad service can be literally life or death, when it comes to veterans contemplating suicide, or serious health problems that need to be addressed.
A session at IBM’s ThinkGov explored the opportunities created by AR and AI, potential difficulties with implementation and case studies.
Oftentimes, people feel hindered – not helped – by government at all levels, and their discontent with the public sector is the product of unpleasant customer experiences (CX).
In the wake of the administration’s Cloud Smart strategy, VA is moving all of its existing applications to cloud and building all of its new applications to be cloud-ready.
Over the past 100 years, a patchwork of services and care have evolved to support returning veterans and their families.
Let’s face it. We live in an age of constantly changing, ever expanding technologies. But if used properly, APIs can help.
